Representing the state : capital city planning in the early twentieth century / Wolfgang Sonne ; [translated from the German by Elizabeth Schwaiger].
Language: English Original language: German Publication details: Munich ; New York : Prestel, c2003.Description: 367 p., [20] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 3791328980 (alk. paper)
- 307.1216 22
- NA9053.C3 S66 2003
Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-342) and index.
The political iconography of the city -- Washington 1902 : national self-presentation of a consolidated democracy -- Greater Berlin 1910 : raising a European capital to imperial world status -- Canberra 1912 : searching for democratic monumentality -- New Delhi 1913 : manifestation of the empire's supremacy -- World centre of communication 1913 : the futile invention of an international city of peace -- City images and their political meaning.
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